MIGRANT CHILDREN PROJECT
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez
Strand C - Latin American and Asian Migrant Children
Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Fina Carpena-Mendez obtained her PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests lie at the border between childhood and youth studies and globalization and transmigration processes. Her dissertation explored the effects of economic restructuring on new migrant-sending communities in Puebla (Mexico) and the emergent transnationalisation of Mexican youth gangs. Her work analyzed the reorganization of the experiences of children and youth in indigenous communities recently affected by accelerated processes of transnational migration to New York and Philadelphia by exploring the contradictions and negotiations in everyday life, the relationships between generations and the formation of youth subjectivities. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego during the academic year 2005-2006. Dr. Carpena-Mendez joined the Marie-Curie Migrant Children Project at University College Cork for comparative research on Latin American children's experiences of transnational migration into Ireland.
More information on Fina's publications and conference presentations available here.